CH 13

Businessman Chasing After The Profits (1)

Putting down her chopsticks, Zhuomu Zhuo Lian said in doubt, “It is enough to check the koji twice a day, how can I move it over?”

Huan Shen would be transferred to the capital in one month. However, Zhuo Lian couldn’t wait that long. She wanted to avoid him completely; she did not want to be threatened with a dagger again. It was just an excuse to look after the koji. She knew a little bit, and Huan Shen knew it well.

“Mother, today’s Xiangquan Qu is made according to the steps I explained earlier. If something goes wrong, Uncle Fu will definitely not leave me in the wine shop again. I am no worse than Zhuo Yujin. Why can’t I make it?” The original body had an aggressive temperament and had always been dissatisfied with her half-sister; Mother Huan would not find what she said to be strange.

“Everyone has their own fate, why bother to compete with Zhuo Yujin? If you really want to live in the wine shop, you have to wait until tomorrow to clean up the place. But if you do live alone in the shop, I will really worry.”

Huan Shen, who was silent for a long while, raised his head suddenly with a gentle smile on his face and proposed, “It’s better for me to move with sister-in-law to the store together. Although I don’t know how to make wine, I’m good at preparing the ingredients, and I’m not afraid of the street rogues.”

While talking, those sharp phoenix eyes stared at Zhuo Lian. It was clear to her that Huan Shen was not afraid of the street rogues he had mentioned, but herself.

What was it like to lift a rock and smash yourself in the foot?

Zhuo Lian hadn’t known it before, but now she could feel it clearly. Today, Da Zhou’s Lord Zhen Guo was no longer a role only in the script, but a real life person next to her. He was very suspicious, and if there was a grudge, he would take revenge and his means were ruthless. If she didn’t step up her guard, it would be difficult to get rid of the fate of the original body.

“This is a good proposal.” Mother Huan nodded seriously.

Zhuo Lian was the one who proposed to live in the store. If she went back on her words now, it would show a guilty conscience. Even if there was no reason, as long as the seeds of doubt were sown in the heart, this suspicion would continue to grow.

Zhuo Lian remained silent, lowered her head and ate the food. Her complexion was calm; if it hadn’t been for the blue veins in her left hand on the table, Huan Shen would have thought she didn’t care.

The next day, Zhuo Lian got up before dawn and walked to the wine shop with Mother Huan. Along the way, she was persuading Mother Huan to change her mind and not sell the wine shop to the Zhuo family.

Because of the busy and hard work of making koji, there was no wine in the store yesterday, and the doors and windows were tightly closed. As soon as Mother Huan entered the room, she removed the window and the wine jar into the hall. Zhuo Lian followed her to work. She was used to these tasks a long time ago, and she didn’t feel tired.

There were a lot of people waiting near the wine shop. Some people were greedy for cheap wine, while some people found this shop convenient, so wethey came here to buy wine. Although the texture of the muddy mash wasn’t good and there were a lot of floating rice grains in the upper layer, they could still be exported .

Zhuo Lian stood behind the counter to collect the money. She was beautiful and graceful, and she spoke softly and very patiently, which was completely different from the lazy host before. Some neighbors came to the door and saw Zhuo Lian; one or two of them were shocked.

“This is the first time the Huan family’s daughter-in-law has come to the wine shop. It’s really unfilial to not come in for a whole year and wait for her husband to die before thinking about working!”

“I thought she was going to marry Yu’s family, as a young lady in the drugstore, and meet with foreign men in the ruined temple all day long. Maybe she would have give her body to someone else.”

Zhuo Lian had heard a lot of these unbearable words in her previous life.

At that time, all of her close relatives had died in the war. After her husband had gone, not only did some people say that she was ridiculous, but also regarded her as an unlucky spirit.

When she was at her most desperate, the master craftsman of the wine shop explained to her, saying that a person’s life was like making wine. Originally a whole grain, it must be stripped of wheat bran, ground into powder and then fermented to become luscious and mellow.

The two women badmouthing her, muttered while casting glances at Zhuo Lian. Seeing Zhuo Lian raise her head calmly, they couldn’t help being a little embarrassed and shut up.

Just as Mother Huan walked in from the backyard, she saw the two of them blushing. She was very puzzled for a while, but she was not a talkative person and did not take the initiative to ask questions.

It stood to reason that there were the most guests drinking in the morning, but the business of the Huan family wine shop was really bad. Zhuo Lian counted, and there were no more than ten people coming to the shop. She sighed helplessly and could only pin her hope on the barn. If there were fine wines, the situation might get better.